Witness says R. Kelly, girl were in sex tape

CHICAGO (Reuters) - R&B superstar R. Kelly and a girl who
described him as her godfather and was about 13 or 14 are the
two people on a pornographic tape Kelly is accused of making,
the girl's former best friend testified on Wednesday.

Simha Jamison, now 24, said in the second full day of the
Grammy Award-winning artist's trial that she recognized her
friend Roshona Landfair on the videotape from her face and from
a "mullet" haircut the two girls had gotten together.

"I saw (the tape) in late February 2002," said Jamison, a
Chicago hair stylist.

"Who did you believe was the female on that tape?" asked
prosecutor Shauna Boliker of the Cook County state's attorney's
office.

"I believed it was my best friend, Roshona," she replied.

And the man on the tape, which Jamison was shown again on
Wednesday before court?

Kelly is charged with 14 counts of videotaping, producing
or soliciting child pornography with a 26-minute tape featuring
oral sex, masturbation and other explicit acts. If convicted of
all charges, the 41-year-old performer, whose given name is
Robert Kelly, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.
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